Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippett
The author discusses the book's origin, starting with a scientific American article, and how her mother's illness and death influenced its direction, adding a focus on belief and healing alongside stress and illness. The book explores the historical context of mind-body connections, scientific advancements enabling the measurement of emotions, and the interplay between stress, the immune system, and disease.
In a way, there's two halves of me. There's the person and there's the scientist.
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Episode: [Unedited] Esther Sternberg With Krista Tippett (O...
The author discusses the book's origin, starting with a scientific American article, and how her mother's illness and death influenced its direction, adding a focus on belief and healing alongside stress and illness. The book explores the historical context of mind-body connections, scientific advancements enabling the measurement of emotions, and the interplay between stress, the immune system, and disease.
In a way, there's two halves of me. There's the person and there's the scientist.
But what happened is that I had written, I was asked to write an article for the scientific American on the science of the mind body connection.
And so I published the article my own way, which was talking about stress and illness.
And so I started writing the book proposal with this editor and I was sitting in my new house. I just moved into a new house and I was sitting there on the computer writing.
But then the more I thought about it, the more I thought that there are a lot of indirect pieces of evidence that one can piece together to construct a logical argument that believing.
Episode: [Unedited] Esther Sternberg With Krista Tippett (O...
The book explores the historical understanding and modern scientific discoveries concerning the mind-body connection, particularly focusing on how stress impacts the immune system and how this understanding can inform health and healing. The author reflects on their personal experiences with illness and how they integrated their scientific background and personal life in writing this book.
In the 1880s said that the principle cause of nervousness in modern civilisation are there are five causes, the periodical press, the telegraph. The steam railroads, the sciences and the mental activity of women.
stress is the body's non-specific response to any demand.
It's not the stress that makes you sick. It's that the stress response, those hormones and nerve chemicals, go to the immune system through the bloodstream, through the nerve endings that then hit immune cells that are nearby, and change how immune cells work.
When I began this book, I started from the Purch of the Scientific Skeptics.